What Next TBD: The Chaos That Made YouTube a Juggernaut

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🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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An inside look at the rise of YouTube into a social media behemoth. Guests: Mark Bergen and Claire Stapleton Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Soar into a new age of adventure with World of Warcraft Dragonflight.
0:06.7	The dragons of Azeroth have returned to the Dragon Isles, and it's up to you to help
0:11.0	them defend their home.
0:12.7	Discover four new sprawling zones, harness the powers of the Drakthere Evoker, an all-new
0:18.6	race and class combo, and master the skies through the art of dragonwriting.
0:23.8	Available November 28th on PC and Mac, learn more at worldofwarcraft.com.
0:34.3	Why don't you guys go ahead and introduce yourself?
0:36.5	My name is Mark Bergen, I'm a reporter with Flunberg, and the author of a new book,
0:41.8	Like, Comment, Subscribe.
0:43.8	Inside YouTube's chaotic rise to world domination.
0:47.8	I'm Claire Stapleton, and I worked at Google from 2007 to 2019.
0:53.7	I was a marketing manager there at Google on YouTube, and I was the co-organizer of the
1:00.6	2018 Google walkout, and I subsequently left the company, and now I read a newsletter
1:05.8	about being a formerly dissolution tech worker.
1:09.0	I brought Mark and Claire on the show this week to talk about YouTube.
1:12.4	Mark's fascinating new book about the company is out this week, and Claire was one of his
1:17.0	sources.
1:18.0	One key story in the book, a story that says a lot about YouTube as a platform, unfolded
1:29.5	in 2017.
1:31.4	They will buy all my merchandise.
1:34.8	They will click like on all my videos.
1:38.7	You're hearing the voice of PewDiePie, aka Felix Gelberg, YouTube's number one creator.
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